Music: Great Voice

It was doubtful whether Kirsten Flagstad's great voice would ever again
be heard in the U.S. In her native Norway, 49-year-old Soprano Flagstad
was an unrespected citizen. Norwegians regard their fellow countrymen
as either politically allgood or all-bad (everyone either collaborated
with the Nazis or worked underground against them)and most Norwegians
are convinced that Flagstad was more loyal to her quisling husband than
to her country. Now, as her husband frets in jail, she has found little
encouragement from the U.S.; the Metropolitan's Edward Johnson has
said: "I see no reason [for] her...